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Customer brought in a 1934 thousand dollar bill. After ten years in banking finally got to see one in person. (i.imgur.com)
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/u/Bman2U

That's worth considerably more than $1,000 to a collector

/u/gokism

Who writes a blue 9 in pen on a $1000 bill? Did he have 9 or more of them at one time?

/u/olfitz

I wish they still printed them. It's such a hassle carrying around a wad of $100s.

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[–] mightyfoolish 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Weird they printed these out when the dollar was worth more. Now the dollar is worth less bigger bills make more sense than ever.

[–] linearchaos 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They definitely would, thank goodness we're heading toward a cashless society :P

[–] mightyfoolish 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Cashless as in credit cards or poor...

[–] Santcuff 5 points 2 years ago

Yes

[–] pixelbounds 3 points 2 years ago

Debit, credit cards, phone wallets most likely

[–] linearchaos 3 points 2 years ago

Any which way but loose.

[–] SrElsewhere 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about graft and payola? How would politicians get paid in a cashless society?

https://thebullelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Freezer-cash.jpg

[–] linearchaos 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'real estate gifts'

[–] SrElsewhere 2 points 1 year ago

Gift cards?

[–] fiestapinguino 14 points 2 years ago

I would never give this up. That person must not be in the best financial situation

[–] BigPapaE 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A quick Google search says:

"Most 1934 series and 1934A series $1,000 notes are worth around $2,125 in very fine condition"

[–] LemmyFeed 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say it's fair condition so best I can do is $50

[–] styx 2 points 2 years ago

$75, and last offer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Totally would have bought it just to have it and asked forgiveness later. I've got a few other older bills that are fun to go back and look at the old styles -- although they're in significantly lower denominations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I remember seeing one in the early 80s as a kid when my mom cashed SSDI check. It was just over a thousand dollars and the cashier had one on hand. If that wasn't the entire budget for our family of five for the month it would've been cool to hang on to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's over $22000 in today's money https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

They seem to sell for around $2000-5000 on eBay, so not a solid investment.

[–] tallwookie 3 points 2 years ago

wow nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Very cool...didn't know they even existed.